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Sports fans that use a tablet or smartphone — the "second screen" — during live game broadcasts are becoming more and more common these days. For this year's Super Bowl, a Century 21 Real Estate survey found that 36% of polled viewers said they would...

The popular web-based RSS reader and news aggregator Bloglines will discontinue service on Friday, October 1. The Ask.com team that operates the site has essentially said that social media sites like Twitter and Facebook killed it. RSS "pushes" websi...

Hillel Fuld authors a blog about technology and marketing at Technmarketing.com. You can follow him on Twitter. Since the proliferation of the Internet, instant messaging (IMing from here on in) has become a very popular means of communicating on the...

We've seen Digg clones for everything; it's a highly competitive space and most such sites don't last too long. Buzzup - by itself - is just another unimaginative tech news oriented version of Digg. However, with Buzzup Docs they might have stumbled ...

FriendFeed has launched six new interface languages today: German, French, Spanish, Japanese, Russian and simplified Chinese. FriendFeed has a large international audience; according to them, nearly one third of their users already use the service in...

Google Reader recently got a facelift; with a fresh look and features, a lot of people are buzzing about the service. Knowing that new users are signing up and veterans are looking for some ideas to make their experience even better, we have put to...

Wendy Boswell stays on top of Web search and social media trends at About.com. You can catch up with her via Twitter. FriendFeed is a social media feed aggregator that makes it easy to follow many different individuals’ various social activities on t...

Ari Herzog (@ariherzog) is a social media strategist to business and government, and an online journalist. He writes about new media and online marketing at ariwriter.com. I run into a brick wall when attempting to share RSS feeds with friends of min...

Video aggregator ffwd has several new features that will bring a smile to faces of Twitter users - at least those who've been aching to add some video love to their Twitter streams. First, there's quick integrated video sharing on Twitter through a b...

This article is part of the Open Web Awards, an open, international contest for the best websites and services. One common theme between most of the finalists in the Social Networking Applications category of The Open Web Awards is that they serve as...

Zenbe, an email aggregator that dips its toes in social networking, adding a hefty number of features to your regular webmail experience to make it worthwhile, is now out of beta and available to everyone. The question is: is it enough to switch from...

Fuser has just launched a major update to their email aggregation service. This evening, members were introduced to the new and improved Fuser, which sports a fresh look and feel. The welcome page is the first sign that things have changed for Fuser ...

Digsby, the universal instant messenger, email and social network aggregator, has announced some very good news regarding their desktop application. After countless complaints from users about the application being a resource hog, Digsby spent the la...

Mefeedia, a Web video search startup with a claimed source list 15,000 strong, announced the addition of six more this week. They’re some pretty high profile ones, too. Revision3, Next New Networks, 60 Frames, On Networks, and Hulu and ABC. Granted, ...

Despite the reams of new job postings being released day in and day out, the treachery of the job search has been greatly facilitated with online engines and listing services. And specific to the tech sector, sites like Dice, and even various new med...

SocialU claims not to be just another social network aggregator. Instead, they call themselves a social networking portal that runs as a desktop application via Adobe Air. The application is like a Web browser that displays all of your social network...

For most of us, Gmail can be the simple answer to aggregating all of our emails together in one place. But for those who are looking for something new with a bit more spice, there are a whole new breed of email aggregators that promise to redefine th...

SecondBrain, the online content aggregator that launched a few weeks back, has added support for ten more services, including FriendFeed, Facebook, Diigo, Reddit, Mixx, Tumblr, Qik, Goodreads and Behance. While many consider SecondBrain a FriendFeed ...

Editor's Note: This post is part of an ongoing series at Mashable - The Startup Review, Sponsored by Sun Microsystems Startup Essentials. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. STARTUP DETAILS: C...

Just to get this out of the way right from the start – I am a big fan of FriendFeed. It is one of the primary tools I use every day as a blogger. It is a tool that I would sorely miss if it ever went away for whatever reason. That said I don’t think ...

Fav.or.it, the much talked about RSS reader and aggregator, is finally open to everyone. The site has re-tooled significantly since its beta back in February, and what we see now is much easier to use and seems much more focused on its mission of tak...

At a glance, Loud3r appears to be yet another version of popURLs or Alltop, just with a lot more verticals right off the bat. Dig a little deeper (you don't have to dig very far) and you'll see that one major differentiating factor for loud3r is that...

GamerDNA is moving forward on its platform strategy to attract more from the gamer community. In launching the new beta version of GamerDNA.com, the company is creating a platform for gamers to join a somewhat agnostic community for maintaining their...

I've always been averse to using widgets in the design of my homepage and my personal blog over the years. Occasionally, I'll find one that is useful enough to keep around a while. I had the Lijit search utility implemented when I still had close t...

Plaxo, which is now under the Comcast umbrella, now supports Google's Friend Connect. With Plaxo's integration, you're able to see which of your Plaxo contacts are also on sites that support Friend Connect, and invite Plaxo friends to join the site a...

In the world of Internet social news there are hundreds of sites that attempt to aggregate all of the most popular stories into one place. Ever since breaking news of important events or natural disasters began pouring out of micro-blogging services,...

Editor’s Note: If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion in “The Startup Review” series, please see the details here. STARTUP DETAILS: Company Name: Twitturly 20-word Pitch: Twitturly is a service for tracking what URLs people a...

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